But people don't use the word "Luddite" as some sort of worker protesting for the sake of vengeance at the government that abandoned them. People talk as if Luddites were some backwards people, that failed to adopt technology and died because they couldn't adapt. If being a Luddite involves a civil war, it is no longer an argument in favor of never questioning technological progress.

And the Sons of Liberty threw other people's tea in the Boston harbor. They were free to buy tea elsewhere.

The state made machine breaking a capital crime. That is, if you break or destroy a machine, you can be executed.

Many who were tried and convicted of machine breaking were accused or guilty by association, or literally broke machines, and were executed. States responded with death and contempt, not merely force.